Zusammenfassung
There are various things that people outside "the community" do not understand. Issues like "paying for free software" and how the software model works. Likewise there are things that the free software community still seems to misunderstand, like why system vendors ignored free operating systems for so long and why various decisions seem to be made. Having been both a customer and a vendor, maddog will try to demonstrate the thinking of both camps, and how to explain each to the other.
ﾜber den Autor
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career which spans over thirty years, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager and educator. He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and is currently funded by SGI. He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College.
Maddog is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies". Maddog serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association. Maddog has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.
